ACADA

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

…As
Police Made First Arrest After Suicide
Bombing

Police and the security services believe they know the
identity of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people - including children - in
an explosion that tore through fans leaving an Ariana Grande pop concert in
Manchester.

As the first arrest was made in connection with the attack,
Prime Minister Theresa May disclosed that the authorities think they know who
carried out the atrocity and confirmed they are working to establish if he was
acting as part of a terror group.

Mrs May said "many" children were among the dead
and 59 injured in the bombing at the Manchester Arena on Monday night as
thousands of young people streamed from the venue.

Her statement came moments before police disclosed that a
23-year-old man was arrested in South Manchester on Tuesday morning in
connection with the bombing.

The first confirmed fatality is 18-year-old sixth form
student Georgina Callender, an Ariana Grande "superfan" from
Lancashire who met her idol in 2015 and was excited to see her on stage last
night.

Meanwhile, relatives of at least 13 people missing after the
attack - including an eight-year-old girl - have launched frantic searches for
their loved-ones.

Victims earlier told how an improvised explosive device
carried by the attacker caused them to be thrown by the blast, which scattered
nuts and bolts across the floor of the foyer area.

Meanwhile, relatives of at least 13 people missing after the
attack - including an eight-year-old girl - have launched frantic searches for
their loved-ones.

Victims earlier told how an improvised explosive device
carried by the attacker caused them to be thrown by the blast, which scattered
nuts and bolts across the floor of the foyer area.

Meanwhile, relatives of at least 13 people missing after the
attack - including an eight-year-old girl - have launched frantic searches for
their loved-ones.

Victims earlier told how an improvised explosive device
carried by the attacker caused them to be thrown by the blast, which scattered
nuts and bolts across the floor of the foyer area.

It is the worst terror attack to hit Britain since the July
2005 suicide bomb attacks in central London in which 52 people were killed and
came four years to the day Lee Rigby was murdered by Islamist extremists.

Mrs May said that the attacker deliberately chose the place
where he could cause "maximum carnage" when he detonated the bomb.

Speaking outside Downing Street after chairing a meeting of
the Government's Cobra emergency committee, Mrs May condemned the
"cowardice" of the attacker and hailed those who rushed to help, who
had shown "the spirit of Britain ... a spirit that through years of
conflict and terrorism has never been broken and will never be broken".

She vowed: "The terrorists will never win and our
values, our country and our way of life will always prevail."